Gloria Copeland — The Mercy Ministry Of Jesus Part 2

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Gloria Copeland

According to 2 Corinthians 1:3, God is “the Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God
of all comfort.” If you study this verse, you will see what
the Spirit of God is saying through the Apostle Paul. He
is saying, Jesus Christ is mercy and comfort. Take hold of
that. Simply put, mercy and comfort express who Jesus is.
God is saying the same thing when He says He is both the
Father of Jesus and the Father of mercy and comfort.

The Son of God did not come to judge us or to teach
us something through hurt and pain. He came in mercy
and comfort to bring us the Father’s mercies—salvation,
deliverance, healing and more.

Ephesians 2: 4-6 says: “But God, who is rich in mercy,
for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we
were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ,
(by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and
made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”

Together with Christ we were brought to life! Mercy
did it. It made us alive. We can say that “When we were
dead in sin, He made us alive together with mercy.” Why?
Because God is love, and when we say that, we are also
saying He is mercy and compassion. Because these words
are exact substitutes for one another, we can also say that
God “hath raised us up together, and made us sit together
in heavenly places in mercy and comfort.”

As joint heirs with Jesus Christ, we are able to sit together
with Him and partake of His inheritance. This
means we share in His ministry of mercy. We become
mercy and comfort as He is. In His Name, we have a command
to take mercy and comfort to the rest of the world.

If we understand mercy in this light, then we can
gain an idea of how great and powerful His mercy is. Too
often we have looked at the word mercy like it meant pity
or sympathy—a weak thing. The voice of sympathy says,
“Oh, I wish there was something we could do.” But mercy
and compassion use faith and say, “There is something we
can do. We will pray in the Name of Jesus.”

Mercy and compassion act. Nothing is too great for
them. Faith works by love and God is love.

Gloria Copeland

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